From matteo.boscarol at gmail.com Tue Apr 2 06:55:01 2019 From: matteo.boscarol at gmail.com (matteo boscarol) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 19:55:01 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Kinji Fukasaku Retrospective Message-ID: <47B5096A-A8A6-49A0-BBC1-6323DBA2C103@gmail.com> Dear All, The National Film Archive of Japan is organising a huge Kinji Fukasaku Retrospective, with 48 of his works screened, from April 23rd to May 26th: https://www.nfaj.go.jp/exhibition/fukasaku201903/?platform=hootsuite Matteo Boscarol ????? ???? ??????????? - Documentary in Japan and Asia http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com - Film writer for Il Manifesto http://ilmanifesto.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Wed Apr 3 10:03:19 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 10:03:19 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?b?5Luk5ZKM?= Message-ID: I?ve been poking around Youtube to see how the new era name is being received. Lots of strange videos. (Anyone looking for anquick essay topic?) The interview clips in mainstream news are predictably polite. I wonder what the discourse is like in real time. Anybody in Japan care to comment? I got a kick out of the Japan Times video. It started with people watching the official broadcast at the scramble crossing in Shibuya, then cut to a guy standing there pondering the name in clear confusion and/or disapproval. But this nikoniko doga clip was the best: https://youtu.be/jpSRUn4WPQE The jokes came fast and furious. Markus -- --- *Markus Nornes* *Professor of Asian Cinema* Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design *Department of Film, Television and Media* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It started with people watching > the official broadcast at the scramble crossing in Shibuya, then cut to a > guy standing there pondering the name in clear confusion and/or > disapproval. > > But this nikoniko doga clip was the best: > > https://youtu.be/jpSRUn4WPQE > > The jokes came fast and furious. > > Markus > > > > > -- > --- > > *Markus Nornes* > *Professor of Asian Cinema* > Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages > and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design > > *Department of Film, Television and Media* > *6348 North Quad* > *105 S. State Street* > *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(Anyone looking for anquick essay topic?) >> >> The interview clips in mainstream news are predictably polite. I wonder >> what the discourse is like in real time. Anybody in Japan care to comment? >> >> I got a kick out of the Japan Times video. It started with people >> watching the official broadcast at the scramble crossing in Shibuya, then >> cut to a guy standing there pondering the name in clear confusion and/or >> disapproval. >> >> But this nikoniko doga clip was the best: >> >> https://youtu.be/jpSRUn4WPQE >> >> The jokes came fast and furious. >> >> Markus >> >> >> >> >> -- >> --- >> >> *Markus Nornes* >> *Professor of Asian Cinema* >> Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages >> and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design >> >> *Department of Film, Television and Media* >> *6348 North Quad* >> *105 S. State Street* >> *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I can also connect you with New Directions if you'd like to make a similar book-related event out of it at your university or institution. Best, Kazu _____ Kazu Watanabe Deputy Director, Film Japan Society | 333 E. 47th St. | New York, NY 10017 (p) 212-715-1265 (e) kwatanabe at japansociety.org www.japansociety.org/film -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From macyroger at yahoo.co.uk Thu Apr 4 17:42:07 2019 From: macyroger at yahoo.co.uk (Roger Macy) Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 21:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] Tsuchimoto at Ghent Apr 4-7 In-Reply-To: References: <777299849.12571857.1553017064257.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <777299849.12571857.1553017064257@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1258699607.27564719.1554414127643@mail.yahoo.com> The Courtisane Festival here has published a separate book of english translations on Tsuchimoto and Ogawa, 'Of Sea and Soil'. I'll attach the t.o.c. They're selling it here for ?15 cash.Roger On Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 17:45:55 GMT, Markus Nornes wrote: Courtesane also publishes excellent catalogs. Keep your eye open for this one, which will have some interesting ?translations. ? Markus On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:38 PM Roger Macy via KineJapan wrote: Dear KineJapaners. The programme for the Courtisane festival at Ghent is finally up https://www.courtisane.be/en/cluster/courtisane-festival-2019 Ghent is a short train-ride from Brussels. Besides other interesting strands, there?s one on Tsuchimoto?s films,including a talk by Aaron. Of course, it?s rather late to be planning a visit in early April -unless you?re coming from the U.K., in which case it?s much too early to bemaking advance plans ?. Roger _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- ---? 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I'll attach the t.o.c. They're selling it here for ?15 cash.Roger On Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 17:45:55 GMT, Markus Nornes wrote: Courtesane also publishes excellent catalogs. Keep your eye open for this one, which will have some interesting ?translations. ? Markus On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:38 PM Roger Macy via KineJapan wrote: Dear KineJapaners. The programme for the Courtisane festival at Ghent is finally up https://www.courtisane.be/en/cluster/courtisane-festival-2019 Ghent is a short train-ride from Brussels. Besides other interesting strands, there?s one on Tsuchimoto?s films,including a talk by Aaron. Of course, it?s rather late to be planning a visit in early April -unless you?re coming from the U.K., in which case it?s much too early to bemaking advance plans ?. Roger _______________________________________________ KineJapan mailing list KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan -- ---? 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(April 5-27) at the Japan Society (curated by Go Hirasawa and the Japan Society). - For more details, please see here . 2) Lecture by *Daisuke Miyao* (Professor, UCSD): *Japonisme and the Birth of Japanese Cinema* - *April 11 (Thursday) 6:00PM*, Kent Hall 403, Columbia University - The event will be held as part of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. - For more details, please see here . We hope you can make it! Sincerely, Takuya ? ? Takuya Tsunoda Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Columbia University 416 Kent Hall New York, NY 10027 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is a very quiet neighborhood, with farm fields nearby, but it also has lots of shopping venues and is convenient to both Tokyo and Yokohama (Aobadai is 25 minutes by train from Shibuya). The house is fully furnished, with some goodies like satellite TV and internet. The rent is ?100,000 a month. We have listed the house on Sabbatical Homes, with some photos: http://www.sabbaticalhomes.com/OfferedDetails.aspx?id=52673 Those who are interested, or who want to learn more details, should mail me at aaron.gerow at yale.edu . I should also note that since we go back and forth from Japan a lot, we have rented out the house many times before (to scholars, dissertation researchers, IUC students) and will probably do so at other times in the future. Aaron Gerow Professor Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures Director of Graduate Studies, Film and Media Studies Yale University 143 Elm Street, Room 210 PO Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520-8324 USA Phone: 1-203-432-7082 Fax: 1-203-432-6729 e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu website: www.aarongerow.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mathieucapel at gmail.com Thu Apr 11 04:20:08 2019 From: mathieucapel at gmail.com (Mathieu Capel) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:20:08 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Rithy Panh x Aizawa Toranosuke Message-ID: Dear Kinejapaners, I would like to draw your attention on a discussion we are organizing next monday in Maison franco-japonaise/Nichi futsu kaikan (Tokyo, Ebisu), from 18:30, between French-Cambodian director Rithy Panh and Aizawa Toranosuke, from Kuzoku, who you may know quite well by now. The informations can be found in Japanese here : https://www.mfj.gr.jp/agenda/2019/04/15/rithy_panh/index_ja.php The discussion will be held both in French and Japanese, with translation. If by any chance some of you are interested, please subscribe on the Nichifutsukaikan website ! Hoping to meet you there on monday, Best, Mathieu Capel Tokyo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com Thu Apr 11 08:10:39 2019 From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:10:39 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] =?windows-1252?q?Japanese_Transnational_Cinema_2-day?= =?windows-1252?q?_seminar=2C_Birkbeck_College=2C_Thu=2C_23_May_2019=2C_10?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A00_=96_Fri=2C_24_May_2019=2C_17=3A00?= Message-ID: I didn?t see any Call For Papers on Kinejapan nor elsewhere for this, so I assume in the spirit of the UK-hosted Kinema Club XVI back in 2017 it was another invitation-only event with regards to presentations. Nonetheless, some of the London-based list members who didn't hear anything about this might be interested in attending and watching the presentations on Japanese Transnational Cinema. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/japanese-transnational-cinema-tickets-59050962017 The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films. The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing. "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter. "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It highlights the limitations of studying Japanese film as a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders, asking: to what extent is Japanese cinema Japanese? And is it a National Cinema? Please note this is a two-day conference with activity on Friday as well. " Earl Jackson Professor Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Co-Director Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:10 PM Jasper Sharp via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > I didn?t see any Call For Papers on Kinejapan nor elsewhere for this, so I > assume in the spirit of the UK-hosted Kinema Club XVI back in 2017 it was > another invitation-only event with regards to presentations. Nonetheless, > some of the London-based list members who didn't hear anything about this > might be interested in attending and watching the presentations on Japanese > Transnational Cinema. > > > > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/japanese-transnational-cinema-tickets-59050962017 > > > > *The Creeping Garden *- A Real-Life > Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed > by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films > > . > The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial > Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing > . > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times* > > . > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter* > > . > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian* > > . > > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:38 AM Earl Jackson via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > The strange thing about the page for the conference - it lists the > participants and provides a link for the "full programme" - but > that takes you to all the days of every event of Arts week. If click on > May 23 you get this description but no actual list of papers. Nor does > the item on Friday provide any more information. > "Japanese transnational cinema | 10-5.00pm | Book your ticket > > > Keynes > Library, 43 Gordon Square. This workshop challenges the old paradigm of > National Cinema. It highlights the limitations of studying Japanese film as > a cinematic phenomenon confined to its national borders, asking: to what > extent is Japanese cinema Japanese? And is it a National Cinema? Please > note this is a two-day conference with activity on Friday as well. " > Earl Jackson > Professor > Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures > National Chiao Tung University > Associate Professor, Emeritus > University of California, Santa Cruz > Co-Director > Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:10 PM Jasper Sharp via KineJapan < > kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > >> I didn?t see any Call For Papers on Kinejapan nor elsewhere for this, so >> I assume in the spirit of the UK-hosted Kinema Club XVI back in 2017 it >> was another invitation-only event with regards to presentations. >> Nonetheless, some of the London-based list members who didn't hear anything >> about this might be interested in attending and watching the presentations >> on Japanese Transnational Cinema. >> >> >> >> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/japanese-transnational-cinema-tickets-59050962017 >> >> >> >> *The Creeping Garden *- A Real-Life >> Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed >> by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. >> Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films >> >> . >> The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial >> Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing >> . >> "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", >> Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times* >> >> . >> "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter* >> >> . >> "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian* >> >> . >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KineJapan mailing list >> KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan >> > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From aaron.gerow at yale.edu Sat Apr 13 20:14:48 2019 From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu (Gerow Aaron) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 20:14:48 -0400 Subject: [KineJapan] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_CFP_=22Media_Cultures_of_the_=28Int?= =?utf-8?q?er/Anti=29_Imperial_Pacific=22_=E2=80=94_DEADLINE_EXTENDED?= References: <9751010154421512.WA.xiuhezhangucsb.edu@listserv.ua.edu> Message-ID: <1510A83D-0876-4F3D-BCED-380E02558D4C@yale.edu> > > The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UC Santa Barbara Department of Film & Media Studies is currently accepting submissions for Media Fields Issue 15, "Media Cultures of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific," co-edited by Xiuhe Zhang and Tyler Morgenstern. Submissions are now due April 30, 2019. Full CFP and submission details are below, and can also be found online at http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/. Please circulate to any students, colleagues or lists you see fit. Your help in distributing this CFP is sincerely appreciated! > > Recent controversies?from protracted battles over international tariff structures to renewed nuclear sabre rattling between the United States and North Korea, and from the brutalities of offshore migrant detention in places like Nauru to the construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea?have thrust the Pacific theater to the forefront of global geopolitical attention. But while these disputes often appear in the guise of crisis, as urgent, largely unanticipated outbreaks of acrimony, they are in many ways historically implicated. As Kornel Chang writes, the Pacific has long been a deeply vexed geopolitical and cultural domain, a vast theater of ?interimperial? encounter striated by the violences of colonial settlement, neocolonial retrenchment, capitalist exploitation, racial domination, and military conquest. But if these are political and cultural histories, they are at the same time media histories. Indeed, since at least the mid-19th century, media and communication technologies have played a central role both in the consolidation of imperial ambitions across the Pacific, as well as in the manifold ways these ambitions have been sabotaged, undermined, and refused. Seeking to thematize these complex and ongoing histories, issue 15 of Media Fields Journal will explore the media cultures of the (inter/anti) imperial Pacific. > > In recent years, scholars of media and technology have turned often toward the Pacific, showing how the region?s overlapping histories of colonization and imperial expansion have fundamentally shaped global communication infrastructures, and vice versa. Nicole Starosielski, for instance, has shown the remarkable degree to which contemporary undersea cable networks, particularly those that connect the west coast of North America with the Asia Pacific, retrace nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial trading routes, transposing the lineaments of territorial empire into a fiber optic register. Ruth Oldenziel, similarly, has read the Pacific as a techno-imperial palimpsest, uncovering the surprising geographic and logistical continuities between colonial coaling stations, early electric telegraph networks, and the shortwave communications infrastructures that proliferated across the Pacific in the Cold War years. Dwayne Winseck and Robert Pike, finally, have reconstructed in painstaking detail the emergence of coherent communications markets in and around the Asia Pacific after about 1860?a project that played out through a baffling choreography of interimperial negotiation and corporate shell gaming. > > In the hopes of extending these important contributions in new directions, we seek original scholarship that explores how media have functioned as tools of imperial governance in the Pacific since the 19th Century, as well as their involvement in struggles for otherwise Pacific worlds and decolonial futures. To this end, we invite contributions that bring media history, theory and analysis into sustained conversation with such fields as Native American and Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, critical race and ethnic studies, island and ocean studies, and archipelagic American studies (see Roberts & Stephens, 2017). However, we encourage submissions from all those whose work explores the richness and vitality of Pacific media cultures?whether historical, contemporary, or emergent?through the lenses of imperiality, coloniality, and/or decolonization. Moreover, even as we acknowledge the abiding hegemony of the United States across much of the Pacific theater, we strongly encourage submissions that provincialize US- and Anglo-centric perspectives, and approach the question of Pacific imperiality from alternative national and/or geopolitical contexts. > > Potential topics for papers include but are not limited to: > ? Indigenous media theory, history, and critique > ? Comparative and differential Indigeneities > ? The technopolitics of imperial administration > ? Activist media: anti-imperialism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty > ? The aesthetic and representational politics of (de)colonization > ? Piracy, hacking, and sabotage > ? Trauma, memory, and the archive > ? Oceanic media infrastructures > ? Colonial and imperial nostalgia > ? South-South/East-East solidarities > ? Critical political economy: tariffs, trade, intellectual property, informality > ? Gender, sexuality, and desire > ? Past futures: Bandung, the Non-Aligned Movement, Nuclear Non-Proliferation > ? Environmental disruption and resource extraction (seafloor dredging, artificial island construction, mining, dumping, pollution, sea level rise) > ? Media policy and regulation in/of colonial states > ? Media, technology, and discourses of development > ? (Mili)tourism > ? Techno-orientalism > ? (Revisiting) the cultural imperialism thesis > ? Analytics of migration and settlement: the settler, the ?coolie,? the arrivant, the ?free laborer,? the indentured, etc. > ? Asian settler colonialism (see Okamura & Fujikane, 2008; Saranillio, 2013) > ? Empire and/as media distribution > ? Media and scalarity: locality, regionality, nationality, globality, and the hemispheric > > For any inquiries, please contact issue co-editors Tyler Morgenstern (tylermorgenstern at ucsb.edu) and Xiuhe Zhang (xiuhezhang at ucsb.edu). Submissions should be approximately 1500?2500 words, and should include at least one image or audio or video clip related to the essay topic. Email submissions to submissions at mediafieldsjournal.org. For more information and complete submission guidelines, please visit http://www.mediafieldsjournal.org From sogawa at nagoya-u.jp Mon Apr 15 19:44:57 2019 From: sogawa at nagoya-u.jp (shota ogawa) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:44:57 +0900 Subject: [KineJapan] Zainichi Korean documentarist Park Sunam in the U.S. Message-ID: Hi everyone I just heard that Park Sunam's latest film *The Silence *will be showing at a bunch of colleges in the U.S. Born in Mie in 1936 to colonial Korean migrant workers, Park's life has been a participant and witness to the troubled history of decolonization, from the struggle for the rights for ethnic education in the late 1940s through anti-nuke petition campaign during the Korean War and, of course, the so-called "Komatsugawa Incident" which resulted in her bestseller nonfiction book on Yi Jin-u (Ri Chin-u) which formed the basis for Oshima's *Death by Hanging *(1968). After a fall out with Chongryun (Soren) she went independent as a reportage journalist, eventually collaborating with Otsu Koshiro on artistically (as well as politically) compelling documentaries in the 1980s. I saw *The Silence *in Nagoya where, fortunately, there weren't any right-wing protestors visible, but since then it has joined a string of "comfort women" related films to be targeted by right-wing criticism. The film is, in fact, more reflective and contemplative than incendiary, since it traces Park's three-decade long relation with comfort women survivors as well as her intriguing conflicts with Shakaito-led initiatives to represent the survivors. Anyways, if you are at one of the campuses showing her films, please spread the words. It is actually her daughter (and producer of *The Silence*) Park Maeui who is traveling with a video letter from Park Sunam and the film. ?4/16(Tues?NYC Location: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Documentary Film Screening 3-5PM followed by Q&A 5-5:30PM) http://ur0.biz/VcFa ?4/*17(Thurs)14:00* Stony Brook University *?**April 19th (Friday) in Virginia*:Fairfax County Government Building 12:45 PM -- Seated in the auditorium 1:00 PM -- Film Screening 3:00 PM -- Panel Discussion: Park Maeui, Prof. Eunah Lee (St. Joseph's College-New York), Prof. Jungah Kim (CUNY: Borough of Manhattan Community College), Dr. Jungsil Lee (George Washington Univ.) 3:45 PM -- Reception *April 18th (Thursday) in Washingon, DC:*George Washington University (Co-sponsored with SOUT)School of Media and Public Affairs, Room B 07 805 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052 6:00 PM -- Coffee 6:30 PM -- Film Screening 8:30 PM -- Q & A with Producer Park Maeui *4/17(Fri?*George Washington University *?4/19(Sat?Virginia:Fairfax County Government Building* https://wccw-silence.eventbrite.com Best wishes. Shota ------------------------------------ Shota Ogawa, Ph.D. Graduate School of Letters Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku Nagoya 464-8601 ?????????????? ?464-0814 ?????????????? ???????? 080-8440-7119 ------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mollydes at upenn.edu Tue Apr 16 08:09:12 2019 From: mollydes at upenn.edu (Des Jardin, Molly C) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:09:12 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Zainichi Korean documentarist Park Sunam in the U.S. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry to bother everyone with my question, but as a librarian for Korean and Japanese studies I'm always looking to add things like this to our holdings. Does anyone happen to know the original title if it's not the English one or if it's available on DVD/Blu Ray from any country? I'm not finding it through any google searches, other than listings for US screenings, so that's why I'm reaching out. Thanks in advance for any leads! I'm perfectly fine with purchasing it on disc from Japan, Korea, or elsewhere; it doesn't have to be a US release. Dr. Molly C. Des Jardin (she/her) Japanese Studies Librarian University of Pennsylvania 527 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 mollydes at upenn.edu https://hcommons.org/members/mdesjardin/ (215) 898-3205 ________________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of shota ogawa via KineJapan Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:44:57 PM To: kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu Cc: shota ogawa Subject: [KineJapan] Zainichi Korean documentarist Park Sunam in the U.S. Hi everyone I just heard that Park Sunam's latest film The Silence will be showing at a bunch of colleges in the U.S. Born in Mie in 1936 to colonial Korean migrant workers, Park's life has been a participant and witness to the troubled history of decolonization, from the struggle for the rights for ethnic education in the late 1940s through anti-nuke petition campaign during the Korean War and, of course, the so-called "Komatsugawa Incident" which resulted in her bestseller nonfiction book on Yi Jin-u (Ri Chin-u) which formed the basis for Oshima's Death by Hanging (1968). After a fall out with Chongryun (Soren) she went independent as a reportage journalist, eventually collaborating with Otsu Koshiro on artistically (as well as politically) compelling documentaries in the 1980s. I saw The Silence in Nagoya where, fortunately, there weren't any right-wing protestors visible, but since then it has joined a string of "comfort women" related films to be targeted by right-wing criticism. The film is, in fact, more reflective and contemplative than incendiary, since it traces Park's three-decade long relation with comfort women survivors as well as her intriguing conflicts with Shakaito-led initiatives to represent the survivors. Anyways, if you are at one of the campuses showing her films, please spread the words. It is actually her daughter (and producer of The Silence) Park Maeui who is traveling with a video letter from Park Sunam and the film. $B-!(B4/16(Tues$B!K(BNYC Location: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Documentary Film Screening 3-5PM followed by Q&A 5-5:30PM) http://ur0.biz/VcFa $B-"(B4/17(Thurs)14:00 Stony Brook University $B!!(B $B-#(BApril 19th (Friday) in Virginia:Fairfax County Government Building 12:45 PM -- Seated in the auditorium 1:00 PM -- Film Screening 3:00 PM -- Panel Discussion: Park Maeui, Prof. Eunah Lee (St. Joseph's College-New York), Prof. Jungah Kim (CUNY: Borough of Manhattan Community College), Dr. Jungsil Lee (George Washington Univ.) 3:45 PM -- Reception April 18th (Thursday) in Washingon, DC: George Washington University (Co-sponsored with SOUT)School of Media and Public Affairs, Room B 07 805 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052 6:00 PM -- Coffee 6:30 PM -- Film Screening 8:30 PM -- Q & A with Producer Park Maeui 4/17(Fri$B!K(BGeorge Washington University$B!!(B $B-$(B4/19(Sat$B!K(BVirginia:Fairfax County Government Building https://wccw-silence.eventbrite.com Best wishes. Shota ------------------------------------ Shota Ogawa, Ph.D. Graduate School of Letters Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku Nagoya 464-8601 $BL>8E20Bg3XBg3X1!1GA|3X=Z658E20;T at i8E20Bg3XJ83XIt(B 080-8440-7119 ------------------------------------ From reeldrew at aol.com Sat Apr 20 22:37:11 2019 From: reeldrew at aol.com (reeldrew at aol.com) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 02:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [KineJapan] seeking to contact Japanese early film devotees about an urgent matter References: <359687284.2372363.1555814231894.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <359687284.2372363.1555814231894@mail.yahoo.com> I would very much appreciate it if anyone in this group who is Japanese or is based in Japan could e-mail me or provide me with e-mail addresses of others, such as individuals associated with Musei Eiga Kanshokai (Matsuda Film Productions). This matter actually has to do with early cinema in the United States. As it does not directly involve Japanese film history, I would prefer to communicate about the details of this with silent cinema devotees by private e-mail rather than posts on KineJapan. I used to have some of these contacts in Japan but over the years, what with other things going on in my life, I lost track of these individuals. So I would appreciate any assistance people at KineJapan could give me in reestablishing these links in Japan, especially with regard to the rather urgent matter that now concerns me. William M. Drew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sun Apr 21 10:59:10 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:59:10 -0600 Subject: [KineJapan] seeking to contact Japanese early film devotees about an urgent matter In-Reply-To: <359687284.2372363.1555814231894@mail.yahoo.com> References: <359687284.2372363.1555814231894.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <359687284.2372363.1555814231894@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Here is the Matsuda email: katsuben at matsudafilm.com And their English website: http://www.matsudafilm.com/index_e.html (The Japanese website is much more dense.) Markus --- *Markus Nornes* *Professor of Asian Cinema* Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design *Department of Film, Television and Media* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 8:37 PM William M. Drew via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > > I would very much appreciate it if anyone in this group who is Japanese or > is based in Japan could e-mail me or provide me with e-mail addresses of > others, such as individuals associated with Musei Eiga Kanshokai (Matsuda > Film Productions). This matter actually has to do with early cinema in the > United States. As it does not directly involve Japanese film history, I > would prefer to communicate about the details of this with silent cinema > devotees by private e-mail rather than posts on KineJapan. I used to have > some of these contacts in Japan but over the years, what with other things > going on in my life, I lost track of these individuals. So I would > appreciate any assistance people at KineJapan could give me in > reestablishing these links in Japan, especially with regard to the rather > urgent matter that now concerns me. > > William M. Drew > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nornes at umich.edu Sun Apr 21 12:14:11 2019 From: nornes at umich.edu (Markus Nornes) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:14:11 -0600 Subject: [KineJapan] Toho in Hollywood Message-ID: Toho has been in Hollywood since 1953, when it started banking on the popularity of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi et al in a dream to break into the largest market in the world. It didn't happen. But they kept the LA office, although you'd never know it. Patrick Frater reports in Variety that Toho just injected the LA office with $14 million. It's interesting that this is happening just as two collaborations with Legendary (the subsidiary of Wanda), the upcoming Godzilla film and *Pokemon Detective Pikachu.* Frater also notes that they've been linked to Bad Robot's live action remake of *Your Name*. It sounds like the strategy is to work collaborations with Hollywood involving characters or whitewashing away the racial and cultural differences through remakes. https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/japan-godzilla-toho-expansion-in-hollywood-1203192294/ Markus --- *Markus Nornes* *Professor of Asian Cinema* Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design *Department of Film, Television and Media* *6348 North Quad* *105 S. State Street* *Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From jasper_sharp at hotmail.com Wed Apr 24 04:31:29 2019 From: jasper_sharp at hotmail.com (Jasper Sharp) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:31:29 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As far as I was aware, the film was a Nikkatsu-Shaw co-production and so not two different versions. Nikkatsu have basic details on their own website, but the film is not on any home viewing format in Japan: http://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/20962.html However, a lot of the Shaw Bros films were released on DVD about 15 years ago, including this one, although it might be hard to find at the moment: https://www.badpandashop.com/products/asia-pol-1967-region-3-dvd-english-subtitled-shaw-brothers Akinori made quite a few films in Hong Kong. In fact, I don't think his Japanese work is particularly well known or available at the moment - I don't think I've ever seen any of it, but I do have his Shaw Bros production Lady Professional, from 1971, which features Lily Ho as an assassin running around Hong Kong and Japan disguised in a nun's outfit. Actually, these Shaw Bros films from Japanese directors do tend to look awfully like Nikkatsu films, Umetsugu Inoue's Venus Tears Diamond being a case in point - a great comic heist movie that even features a scene at the Osaka Expo. Would love to research these further myself had I time time and resources. The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films. The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing. "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter. "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Earl Jackson via KineJapan Sent: 24 April 2019 04:56 To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: Earl Jackson Subject: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service Dear Everyone Apparently Matsuo Akinori directed a film in Chinese in Hong Kong called Asiapol Secret Service but also made a Japanese version concurently, starring Shichido Joe, Asaoka Ruriko, and Nitani Hideaki in 1966. Does anyone know if this has ever become available in any medium at all? Thank you earl Earl Jackson Professor Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Co-Director Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From earljac at gmail.com Wed Apr 24 05:12:33 2019 From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:12:33 +0800 Subject: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Jasper Thank you, that is very informative. I'm not sure why IMDB and other sites only list the Japanese version. He shot a Chinese language version the same year starring Fang Yin and Wang Yu. Thank you for the tip about Shaw Brothers release too - I will continue looking. best ej Earl Jackson Professor Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Co-Director Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:31 PM Jasper Sharp via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > As far as I was aware, the film was a Nikkatsu-Shaw co-production and so > not two different versions. > Nikkatsu have basic details on their own website, but the film is not on > any home viewing format in Japan: http://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/20962.html > > > However, a lot of the Shaw Bros films were released on DVD about 15 years > ago, including this one, although it might be hard to find at the moment: > https://www.badpandashop.com/products/asia-pol-1967-region-3-dvd-english-subtitled-shaw-brothers > > Akinori made quite a few films in Hong Kong. In fact, I don't think his > Japanese work is particularly well known or available at the moment - I > don't think I've ever seen any of it, but I do have his Shaw Bros > production Lady Professional, from 1971, which features Lily Ho as an > assassin running around Hong Kong and Japan disguised in a nun's outfit. > Actually, these Shaw Bros films from Japanese directors do tend to look > awfully like Nikkatsu films, Umetsugu Inoue's Venus Tears Diamond being a > case in point - a great comic heist movie that even features a scene at the > Osaka Expo. Would love to research these further myself had I time time and > resources. > > > > > *The Creeping Garden *- A Real-Life > Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed > by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films > > . > The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial > Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing > . > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times* > > . > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter* > > . > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian* > > . > > ------------------------------ > *From:* KineJapan on behalf of Earl > Jackson via KineJapan > *Sent:* 24 April 2019 04:56 > *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Cc:* Earl Jackson > *Subject:* [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service > > Dear Everyone > Apparently Matsuo Akinori directed a film in Chinese in Hong Kong called > Asiapol Secret Service but also made a Japanese version concurently, > starring Shichido Joe, Asaoka Ruriko, and Nitani Hideaki in 1966. Does > anyone know if this has ever become available in any medium at all? > Thank you > earl > Earl Jackson > Professor > Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures > National Chiao Tung University > Associate Professor, Emeritus > University of California, Santa Cruz > Co-Director > Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From azahlten at fas.harvard.edu Wed Apr 24 08:32:38 2019 From: azahlten at fas.harvard.edu (Zahlten, Alexander) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 12:32:38 +0000 Subject: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <92739020-E70D-42BB-8359-83AEB4CE70A2@fas.harvard.edu> Hi Earl, You are right, there are two versions of Asiapol, though only one is / was officially available on DVD as far as I know, which is the one Jasper pointed out (contact me offline and we can talk more about how to get your hands on it). Akinori?s films are very interesting for the way they use the widescreen format ? Jasper can probably tell us a lot about that aspect (Jasper, when is your book on widescreen finally coming out? I can?t wait!). Venus Tear Diamond is terrifically interesting ? the Expo scenes are amazing by themselves. The expo visit by the characters ends up focusing on the Korean pavilion (built to look like a giant turtleship (!), oars and all ? talk about sticking it to Japan) because of another fascinating aspect of the film. It was partially a project initiated by Shin Sang-ok, who was heavily involved with Shaw Brothers at the time and thinking of a Korean release; this was another reason Inoue needed to use a Chinese film for the directing credits. Best, Alex From: KineJapan on behalf of Jasper Sharp via KineJapan Reply-To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 04:31 To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: Jasper Sharp Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service As far as I was aware, the film was a Nikkatsu-Shaw co-production and so not two different versions. Nikkatsu have basic details on their own website, but the film is not on any home viewing format in Japan: http://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/20962.html However, a lot of the Shaw Bros films were released on DVD about 15 years ago, including this one, although it might be hard to find at the moment: https://www.badpandashop.com/products/asia-pol-1967-region-3-dvd-english-subtitled-shaw-brothers Akinori made quite a few films in Hong Kong. In fact, I don't think his Japanese work is particularly well known or available at the moment - I don't think I've ever seen any of it, but I do have his Shaw Bros production Lady Professional, from 1971, which features Lily Ho as an assassin running around Hong Kong and Japan disguised in a nun's outfit. Actually, these Shaw Bros films from Japanese directors do tend to look awfully like Nikkatsu films, Umetsugu Inoue's Venus Tears Diamond being a case in point - a great comic heist movie that even features a scene at the Osaka Expo. Would love to research these further myself had I time time and resources. The Creeping Garden - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films. The book, The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds is out now from Alchimia Publishing. "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times. "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter. "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. ________________________________ From: KineJapan on behalf of Earl Jackson via KineJapan Sent: 24 April 2019 04:56 To: Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum Cc: Earl Jackson Subject: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service Dear Everyone Apparently Matsuo Akinori directed a film in Chinese in Hong Kong called Asiapol Secret Service but also made a Japanese version concurently, starring Shichido Joe, Asaoka Ruriko, and Nitani Hideaki in 1966. Does anyone know if this has ever become available in any medium at all? Thank you earl Earl Jackson Professor Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Co-Director Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From earljac at gmail.com Wed Apr 24 10:15:28 2019 From: earljac at gmail.com (Earl Jackson) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 22:15:28 +0800 Subject: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service In-Reply-To: <92739020-E70D-42BB-8359-83AEB4CE70A2@fas.harvard.edu> References: <92739020-E70D-42BB-8359-83AEB4CE70A2@fas.harvard.edu> Message-ID: Dear Alex, Thank you for this extra information - very very interesting. I saw Venus Tear Diamond years ago in Hawaii. I should look for it again. That was Inoue Umetsugu I think. I remember Lily Ho is in it and the Korean actress Park Ji-hyeon. I had no idea Shin Sang-ok had been involved. best ej Earl Jackson P Professor Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures National Chiao Tung University Associate Professor, Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz Co-Director Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:32 PM Zahlten, Alexander via KineJapan < kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote: > Hi Earl, > > > > You are right, there are two versions of Asiapol, though only one is / was > officially available on DVD as far as I know, which is the one Jasper > pointed out (contact me offline and we can talk more about how to get your > hands on it). Akinori?s films are very interesting for the way they use the > widescreen format ? Jasper can probably tell us a lot about that aspect > (Jasper, when is your book on widescreen finally coming out? I can?t wait!). > > > > Venus Tear Diamond is terrifically interesting ? the Expo scenes are > amazing by themselves. The expo visit by the characters ends up focusing on > the Korean pavilion (built to look like a giant turtleship (!), oars and > all ? talk about sticking it to Japan) because of another fascinating > aspect of the film. It was partially a project initiated by Shin Sang-ok, > who was heavily involved with Shaw Brothers at the time and thinking of a > Korean release; this was another reason Inoue needed to use a Chinese film > for the directing credits. > > > > Best, > > Alex > > > > > > > > *From: *KineJapan on behalf of > Jasper Sharp via KineJapan > *Reply-To: *Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Date: *Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 04:31 > *To: *Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Cc: *Jasper Sharp > *Subject: *Re: [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service > > > > As far as I was aware, the film was a Nikkatsu-Shaw co-production and so > not two different versions. > > Nikkatsu have basic details on their own website, but the film is not on > any home viewing format in Japan: http://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/20962.html > > > > > > However, a lot of the Shaw Bros films were released on DVD about 15 years > ago, including this one, although it might be hard to find at the moment: > https://www.badpandashop.com/products/asia-pol-1967-region-3-dvd-english-subtitled-shaw-brothers > > > > > Akinori made quite a few films in Hong Kong. In fact, I don't think his > Japanese work is particularly well known or available at the moment - I > don't think I've ever seen any of it, but I do have his Shaw Bros > production Lady Professional, from 1971, which features Lily Ho as an > assassin running around Hong Kong and Japan disguised in a nun's outfit. > Actually, these Shaw Bros films from Japanese directors do tend to look > awfully like Nikkatsu films, Umetsugu Inoue's Venus Tears Diamond being a > case in point - a great comic heist movie that even features a scene at the > Osaka Expo. Would love to research these further myself had I time time and > resources. > > > > > > > > > > *The Creeping Garden > * > - A Real-Life Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People > Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. > > Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from Arrow Films > > . > > The book, *The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial > Slime Moulds *is out now from Alchimia Publishing > > . > > "A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", > Nicolas Rapold, *The New York Times* > > . > > "An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, *Hollywood Reporter* > > . > > "Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, *The Guardian* > > . > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* KineJapan on behalf of Earl > Jackson via KineJapan > *Sent:* 24 April 2019 04:56 > *To:* Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum > *Cc:* Earl Jackson > *Subject:* [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service > > > > Dear Everyone > > Apparently Matsuo Akinori directed a film in Chinese in Hong Kong called > Asiapol Secret Service but also made a Japanese version concurently, > starring Shichido Joe, Asaoka Ruriko, and Nitani Hideaki in 1966. Does > anyone know if this has ever become available in any medium at all? > > Thank you > > earl > > Earl Jackson > > Professor > > Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures > > National Chiao Tung University > > Associate Professor, Emeritus > > University of California, Santa Cruz > > Co-Director > > Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute > _______________________________________________ > KineJapan mailing list > KineJapan at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: